cchilton-666
8 years ago
I've been walking round near melsonby this evening and found this it goes back a long way before a very small fall you can see over it carries on bearing slightly to the right I was wondering if anyone had any information as to what it is
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Morlock
8 years ago
Do you have a FlashEarth/GoogleEarth or a GPS position, failing that, a description of the general location?
cchilton-666
8 years ago
cchilton-666
8 years ago

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Morlock
8 years ago
Old maps turn up a feature named 'Lady Well Bank' for that location, I'll research a little more.
cchilton-666
8 years ago
I know the road is called lady well bank
cchilton-666
8 years ago
I was wondering if it was drainage for some cooper workings that are close by
Morlock
8 years ago
"cchilton-666" wrote:

I was wondering if it was drainage for some cooper workings that are close by



That was one of my first thoughts as the passage does appear culvert shaped in places.
cchilton-666
8 years ago
It has a constant flow of clean water running at the moment but a friend of mine told me he's seen it about waist deep at times and at other times bone dry
Morlock
8 years ago
Possibly connected with this site?

https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Mines/Merrybent-Copper-Mine_7677/ 

There's also a place called 'Middle Caves' near the motorway.
cchilton-666
8 years ago
My friend lives at the houses at middle caves
cchilton-666
8 years ago
The tunnel heads towards the church and seems to bear slightly right past the fall you could almost squeeze over the fall however the water is very deep at the other side
robnorthwales
8 years ago
Coal authority mapping site says that in that (approximate) location is "water level into copper mine"

So most likely a drainage level.
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cchilton-666
8 years ago
Cold this get you into the bottom of a bell pit?
cchilton-666
8 years ago
The coal authority map shows a shaft near church row which is the general direction that it was heading
Morlock
8 years ago
May possibly drain to the Waterfall Brook, perhaps even to the culverted section.
cchilton-666
8 years ago
Where is the waterfall brook
Morlock
8 years ago
This bridge goes over it.

https://zoom.earth/#54.471074,-1.694858,19z,sat 

Edit: After checking the land profile it appears more likely that the stream resurgences at the lower contours are worth a check.

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christwigg
8 years ago
There a map in Copper Mining in Middleton Tyas by T R Horshaw that shows a level about 500 yards west of Trindalls House (now Thorndale Stud)

Only problem is that would be just to the East of Melsonby and its south of Waterfall Beck, close but not the location you mention.

It talks very briefly about this level (S-T-U) of the Duchess of Northumberlands land.

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cchilton-666
8 years ago
I know where it drains to in the entrance there is 2 cat iron pipes which run across the field away from the village to a man hole where it turns 90 degrees left to another manhole further down the field into a concrete pipe and down towards the stream near albrough st john
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